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Hunter took the ride, to the end of the line. What he did take from it is epic, and what it took from him, we will never know. Suicide is never glorious and while Hunter was extraordinary, the fact he decided to kill himself has taught me to view my sobriety/ using with more understanding.
@N73B60 And I'm a gonzo journalist. I'll rent a great red shark, you meet me at the terminal. Deal? I can bring the supplies, I have stable suppliers and an appetite to match. =)
@thedriftmc yea. let's live Hunter's history and be criticized by his fans.
well, apart from the cult thing, in fact I have plans to smoke crack when I get old and bald. In the end of my life I want to experiment crack, maybe heroin too.
Why are these idiots making their pilgrimages to Woody Creek turning the place into the last thing HST would have wanted it to be - a fucking tourist attraction?
YES!!! Exactly what I was thinking! The last thing he would have wanted to see was an army of aviator wearing wannabes taking over woody creek. Don't try to BE your heros. Try to be LIKE them!!
how do any of you know? You didn't personaly know the man. How do you know he "lived life to it's fullest"? What does that even mean? What, he lived life to it's fullest by doing a lot of drugs and not giving a shit what any one thought? Prisons and dead end jobs are full of them( I should know, I am one of those), great to memorialise him, but gimme a f*cking break with some of these posts! He was a human being just like you and I. If u think u know and never met the man.....how do u know?
how do any of you know? You didn't personaly know the man. How do you know he "lived life to it's fullest"? What does that even mean? What, he lived life to it's fullest by doing a lot of drugs and not giving a shit what any one thought? Prisons and dead end jobs are full of them( I should know, I am one of those), great to memorialise him, but gimme a f*cking break with some of these posts! He was a human being just like you and I. If u think u know and never met the man.....how do u know?
@davideyeary Actually, he was trapped in a paradox of "having" to be gonz all the time.. when sometimes he just wanted to be Hunter. But he was expected to live up to the reputation he had built for himself. The only way he was ever going to opt out as he got old, was to opt out exactly the way he did. Yes, it's a sad state to be in. I do admire him, he's such an inspiration. But your point is well made.
Hunter was one of the most insane people who ever lived, but at the same time, probably the only human being in the history of man who ever made sense.
this video sucks balls. this event sucked balls. hipster faggots gathering in mass to attempt yet utterly fail to emulate a true icon... fuck you douche-bags who congregated like lost sheep.
The only negative thing about Hunter was that so many young writers wanted to be like him, an impossible task. When I was an editor for my college newspaper a writer who I was to become good friends with turned in a column that was really good, except that it was loaded with Hunterisms--savage bastard, swine, twisted this and that--and when I handed it back to him I wrote at the top, "Good column. Unfortunately there is already a Hunter S. Thompson."
I still wonder his reasoning for wanting to be blasted into space, I personally would do it because I'd be disgusted at the idea of my body being organically recycled into another human.
@parsleysprigs When Diogenis was asked how he wished to be buried, he left instructions to be thrown outside the city wall so wild animals could feast on his body. When asked if he minded this, he said, "Not at all, as long as you provide me with a stick to chase the creatures away!" When asked how he could use the stick since he would lack awareness, he replied "If I lack awareness, then why should I care what happens to me when I am dead?
@parsleysprigs There was a film where he said that when he died he wanted to be blaster out of a cannon and have his ashes explode into the gonzo symbol. Johnny Depp paid for it.
I was too young to appriciate how amazing this man truly was...was only 16. I have made sure to appriciate him in death... So brilliant, and he perceived everything so utterly honest it was beautiful... I wish I could have just shaken his hand and told him what a pleasure it was to have met him
@Baxxter101, @Reblwitoutacause I really tire of fools like youselves, you really are just the worst kind of people. Of course he contemplated suicide, I won't deny that, and hell maybe he did off himself, im not going to claim he wouldn't have done it. Shit, that's how I'm going to go out someday, when it's time. But it's obvious that you don't know Thompson as well as you think you do; even if he had killed himself, Thompson would have wanted the world to question the official story.
He should have committed suicide by having a Satanist take out his adrenaline glands. Imagine smoking that shit! But yeh, Thompson is a fucking legend, and all you cunts mourning over him are soft bastards. Instead of being all miserable, why not act a bit more like Hunter S. Thompson. That way, he really won't ever die. That way, it won't be his rareness that keeps him alive, but his weirdness.
Watched it from the hiil we all climbed across the street from the tavern. Had me a bottle of Wild Turkey. It was a once in a lifetime event that I will remember forever. Traveled over 2,000 miles from Pittsburgh to be there. Camped in the White Pines a few miles past Hunter's place. What a great time. HST!!! The Crazy Never Die!!!
There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die
man its weird knowing that was him in the dust, just knowing its a person who lived a life and actually had a impact of some kind fucking blows me away.
Hunter would have been pissed at all these people trying to be him. He was special because he was entirely different from anyone else, and he'd want everyone to be their own person.
@spiralcosmosart One of his most famous quotes ( I can't find it, but search around and it'll be somewhere ) is him stating that he would go crazy if he couldn't kill himself at any time. I personally think that he lived his life to the fullest, enjoyed what he could while he could, and when he couldn't any longer and he had no further reason to live, he stopped doing so. He was in control all his life and even controlled his death. A role model for all druggies ( and non ) if you ask me
@Reblwitoutacause - I disagree. He categorically admitted he was an addict many times and had an "addictive personality". Addiction is not control over one's life, it's enslavement. Before he died I was a good fan of Hunter because I never really considered him as someone suffering all that bad. I thought he was a well rounded dare devil experimenter at worst. Little did I know.
@spiralcosmosart And addictive personality and being an addict are not necisarriyl the same thing. You have to remember, not only was he a writer and journalist, he was a drug. And both those areas use MUCH double meaning and metaphore. Especially when it comes to Thompson. If you attempted to listen to him or read his work in a literal sense, be prepared to miss every meaning and idea he had. I have to agree. Little did you know. He was hardly a "dare devil experimenter." He was as he would...
@spiralcosmosart ...say, "another ugly refugee of the love generation." He was as drugged up as one can get. Shit man have you ever really stopped to even think about how many drugs he was on all the time back when he wrote Fear and Loathing for Rolling Stones, in 1971? That was 20-30 some odd years before he died. He was hardly enslaved, it was a choice. He chose to do what he did with drugs, his life, and in the end, his death. I agree fully with you only when you say "Little did I know."
@Reblwitoutacause. I really did NOT believe he was ever going to commit suicide. Bold mind experimenter, but not suicidal. He seemed way too much of an heroic prankster who loved his fans. Now he's "an hero" (see encyclopedia dramatica). He had a wife at least 30 years younger than him pampering his old ass, he had everything to die with some degree of dignity without putting a bullet through his head.
@spiralcosmosart Fuckin foreigners.. suicidal he was not. Football season was over. He was 67. He couldn't be a journalist anymore. He was old and tired and done with life because it held no more interest for him any longer, so when he was done, he was done. Simple as that. He didn't give a shit about his fans or being "a heroic prankster" Are you talking about Thompson or Raoul? Make sure you do not mistake one for the other because they are not the same identity or the same person.
@spiralcosmosart When you are done, you are done. It's as simple as that. "No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun — for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax — This won't hurt."
Entitled "Football Season Is Over" this is HST suicide note. If you don't understand what he's saying in this, then there is why you don't understand his death
@Reblwitoutacause you sir are a gentleman and a scholar. I too have argued with many-a-youtube-retard about his death and you have driven all of the nails into the board... Those "fans" and "admirers" who simply cannot believe or accept he took his own because it violates their personally constructed image of what HST represented deserve the pain and agony of the slow painful decay of the human form. Despite perpetual intoxication, Thompson always saw the trees, the forest, and through them.
@Reblwitoutacause I think his son Juan,who was in the other room at the time, said it best when is said "in a strange way it was a warm family moment"
Shit, the man practically invented and was the manifestation of "living life on your own terms". I believe Thompson understood that the standards and realities most people accept are really fucking weird man...
Point being we're all terminally ill, we will all die. When and how is NOT beyond choice, nor is it wrong to make that choice. RIP
@Baxxter101@Baxxter101 I thank you for seeing through what is, and being able to see what it is. He realized long ago and you can see in his work, we are all slowly marching toward the end. He just got tired of waiting and skipped ahead to the front of the line. He was done with the time and fun given to him on this planet and so when he was done, he was done. RIP indeed. And remember: "He who makes a beast of himself, gets rid of the pain of being a man."
@Reblwitoutacause I just tire of non-freaks constantly failing, not only to understand the motivations, but also for questioning, and often claiming some kind of esoteric knowledge of malicious conspiracy... I maintain that true freaks understand, accept, and consider this mode of death as more than a mere possibility, but an honorable and noble one. HST blew his own fucking brains out... Put it this way, take the ride... when its over or it is no longer fun, unbuckle yourself. don't wait.
glad to see this video of his funeral here for all the fans 2 be able to say goodbye, rip hunter you were a visionary to those who question all and that push themselves to new limits. dont forget to get weird on the otherside. selah, a whole generation went wierd without you. mike whitey. check out my book online at sic with it productions ( the american dream thru gonzo eyes). a memior doc, the last twenty years in cali thru a young whiteboys gonzo eyes.
If he did one thing wrong it was, unwittingly, to encourage a lot of untalented pseuds to believe taking drugs and getting drunk was the short cut to ability. It isn't and in the end it wore down HST's ability too which was the real tragedy
"Nobody was like him and that made him unique" Lulz, which also made him an individual he used to go as close to the bone as he could get, and got away with it! great philosophical philosiphizer R.I.P.I.T.U.P
Hunter was the last of a dieing breed. Those that can get to the heart of a matter and examine its most unpleasent workings. He uses anger and argument along with joy and charisma like a Master!
Buy the ticket, take the ride. I hope he is enjoying his new "adventure" into the great beyond.
When you approve of it? Who the fuck are you? If you put any real interest in the life of Hunter Thompson you would realize that his death was not in vein, that he went out the way he wanted to, when he wanted to, and that he knew he'd find peace leaving this world to the next. Did he require yours or any other's approval? Of course not. If he were here, he'd dissolve you to nothing, with words, and in seconds. So please, as you respect the living, do the same for the dead.
When you approve of it? Who the fuck are you? If you put any real interest in the life of Hunter Thompson you would realize that his death was not in vein, that he went out the way he wanted to, when he wanted to, and that he knew he'd find peace leaving this world to the next. Did he require yours or any other's approval? Of course not. If he were here, he'd dissolve you to nothing, with words, and in seconds. So please, as you respect the living, do the same for the dead.
When you approve of it? Who the fuck are you? If you put any real interest in the life of Hunter Thompson you would realize that his death was not in vein, that he went out the way he wanted to, when he wanted to, and that he knew he'd find peace leaving this world to the next. Did he require yours or any other's approval? Of course not. If he were here, he'd dissolve you to nothing, with words, and in seconds. So please, as you respect the living, do the same for the dead.
i was being vaguely poetic, so if you'll relax for two seconds you'd understand i meant that his word won't be forgotten until people like me and you forget it
Thompson could always relate to Mr.tambourine man. Those Damn Swine finnaly got you hunter, but luckly we will still move on. We wont worry about today till tommorow. R.I.P
I was going to comment how shitty the first part of this video was, but the last minute more than made up for the small-town local news style... They shut up and just let it be.
Who knows, maybe it was some small local channel... Either way, TV news reports are lame.
He'd definitley of hated this man. the reason hunter was so special was because he was a natural, impulsive, different person, something special.. this dude has no chance.
best person who ever lived. I just cant believe how a persons life can be like his. Everything just seemed to slide into place for him. He never seemed to plan. And tbh when it did fit into place by what seemed like accident he never seemed bothered
Blah, "Transmetropolitan" is a cheap and shallow comic book that doesn't really provide any real insight into anything real. It literally takes a bunch of social & political stereotypes and comic-ifies them. What Hunter S Thompson wrote about was REAL, even when it wasn't, about anti-Castro terrorists living off of cocaine and gun sales when they weren't "running around naked in the basement of the White House with Oliver North," to paraphrase HST. Warren Ellis doesn't tell us anything ...
its all entertainment,and there is much of a little jab, it aint going to criticize much the american culture but that of a future society,tyhat of a dystopia
For all you Hunter S. Thompson fans out there, you should probably check out Warren Ellis' "Transmetropolitan". And yeah, it's a graphic novel [comic book if you wanna be a dick about it :)] but trust me - "Fear and Loathing" is the only thing that compares when it comes to portraying Thompson and gonzo journalism...
why is it every time i fucking write a goddamn comment it just says "post comment" after i hit enter even though my comment was not too long or what ever does it for youtube to fucking let it pass fuck ...youtube is free but really gets on my freeloading fucking nerves sometimes...they should rename it "themtube"
i think what ghostmonkey ment is that hunter would hate the fact that we are exploiting him as mainstreet america and people that didn't ever even care before are suddenly interested when they don't know any of the facts or backstory he desrves the best the real and no the 60's offically died in 1971 hunters own words you see what imean
If what you mean is that he was somehow a victim of his own fame, then maybe... like the Doonesbury caricature of Raoul Duke and all, but if you know anything about the man's life, he was always who he was... a true original. Often emulated and never duplicated. They broke the mold when they made him, and whatever "image" people cling to of the man was born out of real individuality and true grit.
Hunter wrote somewhere (in his voluminous correspondence, I think) that he didn't expect to live past the age of twenty-seven, so therefore his last forty years were on 'borrowed' time till he wore out from the ravages of age and the stupidity of George W. Bush's Amerika. Hunter would've been pleased that Colorado (and most of the nation) voted for Obama. Now I'm looking forward to the film version of Hunter's "Rum Diary" with Johnny Depp. Res Ipsa Loquitur et Requiesat In Pace, Lizard Man!
Hunter may have been pleased at Obama's election victory, but he'd never express it. Furthermore, he'd have become a major thorn in Obama's side and, I reckon, more than ever commentate with such fierce criticism so as to keep the Dijon do-gooder in check and hold him to every last word spoke and every last promise made. Hunter was a man of the people, and the people in general are still suffering in Dr. Gonzo's ideology of Amerika.
Haligonia, are you unfamiliar with the way Hunter favoured Carter in '76, or (to a lesser extent) Clinton in '92? Granted, he'd take Obama to task for Playing The Game to cultivate 'centrists' who are perceived as necessary to win and hold the Presidency, but faced with the possibility of McCain/Palin winning by default, I think Hunter would've sounded off on Obama's behalf.
("Dijon do-gooder"? Did Obama endorse 'Grey Poupon'? Should he recommend it, like Lincoln did for Grant's whisky?)
people who try to emulate him arent really honoring him, try to be different you know, thats why he was such a good writer he wasn't conforming to every one else's style, he created his own.
Exactly. People should follow his ideas, not his image. Be your own man, or woman. That doesn't mean AVOIDING conformity at every turn - you can, in fact, try too hard. But crafting your own image in the mold of Hunter is no different from crafting your image in the mold of a generic Hollister model. You're pretending to be someone else. It's akin to seeing a heavily tattooed biker, wanting to get your own tattoos...and copying from his skin. It's not an honor to him at all. It's theft.
I never met Hunter, but the fact that I didn't makes me feel so cheated. It makes me so miserable that I missed out on meeting one of the most influential American writers ever.
his ashes went all over those people? 0_o
nightcrawler511 2 months ago
steak and cheese website, I nostalgia'd hard.
DrVonNostrand 2 months ago
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saintrambone 2 months ago
@LOLIandMETH & @pigiron965 go FUCK yourselves
willifeared 3 months ago
he made media shit. make shit up to make it more intertesting, is called fiction
pigiron965 4 months ago
He was a drug addict who liked to show us for the mockery we are
lms528 4 months ago
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lms528 4 months ago
oh fuck, what a way to go out. live like an egotistical sociopath, die like one too. its the fucking way to go.
LOLIandMETH 4 months ago
These assholes encouraged his suicide.
MrDanamil 4 months ago
Hunter took the ride, to the end of the line. What he did take from it is epic, and what it took from him, we will never know. Suicide is never glorious and while Hunter was extraordinary, the fact he decided to kill himself has taught me to view my sobriety/ using with more understanding.
donluchitti 5 months ago 6
he knew what to end it with, and he chose Bob Dylan baby. that event would've been my life basically flashing before my eyes.
M0j0S0D0pe420 6 months ago
...zoginated
TwyfordianArc 7 months ago
My goal in life is to be like Oscar Zeta Acosta and find someone like Hunter Thompson.
And that's why I'm a law student.
N73B60 7 months ago
@N73B60 And I'm a gonzo journalist. I'll rent a great red shark, you meet me at the terminal. Deal? I can bring the supplies, I have stable suppliers and an appetite to match. =)
thedriftmc 7 months ago
@thedriftmc yea. let's live Hunter's history and be criticized by his fans.
well, apart from the cult thing, in fact I have plans to smoke crack when I get old and bald. In the end of my life I want to experiment crack, maybe heroin too.
N73B60 7 months ago
@N73B60 heroin would be a safer choice, idk how well an old person's heart would handle crack
CDClock 6 months ago
Why are these idiots making their pilgrimages to Woody Creek turning the place into the last thing HST would have wanted it to be - a fucking tourist attraction?
ponedog 7 months ago 2
@ponedog
YES!!! Exactly what I was thinking! The last thing he would have wanted to see was an army of aviator wearing wannabes taking over woody creek. Don't try to BE your heros. Try to be LIKE them!!
Loady91 6 months ago
@jeffrey42088 satanist? O_O what is living your life to the fullest has to do with religion?
maxman2324 7 months ago
that dude's ashes should be smoked!
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how do any of you know? You didn't personaly know the man. How do you know he "lived life to it's fullest"? What does that even mean? What, he lived life to it's fullest by doing a lot of drugs and not giving a shit what any one thought? Prisons and dead end jobs are full of them( I should know, I am one of those), great to memorialise him, but gimme a f*cking break with some of these posts! He was a human being just like you and I. If u think u know and never met the man.....how do u know?
davideyeary 8 months ago
how do any of you know? You didn't personaly know the man. How do you know he "lived life to it's fullest"? What does that even mean? What, he lived life to it's fullest by doing a lot of drugs and not giving a shit what any one thought? Prisons and dead end jobs are full of them( I should know, I am one of those), great to memorialise him, but gimme a f*cking break with some of these posts! He was a human being just like you and I. If u think u know and never met the man.....how do u know?
davideyeary 8 months ago
@davideyeary Actually, he was trapped in a paradox of "having" to be gonz all the time.. when sometimes he just wanted to be Hunter. But he was expected to live up to the reputation he had built for himself. The only way he was ever going to opt out as he got old, was to opt out exactly the way he did. Yes, it's a sad state to be in. I do admire him, he's such an inspiration. But your point is well made.
thedriftmc 7 months ago
@jeffrey42088 Hunter S Thopmson a satanist? how do you draw that conclusion
f4eazrael 8 months ago
sanity is a tool of ignorance
msfattytrollbitch 8 months ago
@msfattytrollbitch deep subject for a shallow mind like yours
Raincitywarrior 1 month ago
that is the most epic funeral ever
Hrko1992 9 months ago 23
Buy The Chicken
Take The Fries
Get A Life
ChaLeeShen 9 months ago
Hunter was one of the most insane people who ever lived, but at the same time, probably the only human being in the history of man who ever made sense.
babysealsareyummy 9 months ago
@babysealsareyummy this is ballshit , there are loads of insane men, only cause he was famous it was easy to label him as insane
dy30n 8 months ago
Fuck the nine people that missed the like button
FieldswordShinobi 9 months ago
this video sucks balls. this event sucked balls. hipster faggots gathering in mass to attempt yet utterly fail to emulate a true icon... fuck you douche-bags who congregated like lost sheep.
Baxxter101 10 months ago
@Baxxter101 fuck you for being a douche bag. End of discussion. You make me sick
FieldswordShinobi 9 months ago
T00Lz & H4XX all of them!
PLURadelphia 11 months ago
I feel so lame. I've only recently become aware of Hunter Thompsons's work, even though he died when i was 16.
carloslpz 11 months ago
The only negative thing about Hunter was that so many young writers wanted to be like him, an impossible task. When I was an editor for my college newspaper a writer who I was to become good friends with turned in a column that was really good, except that it was loaded with Hunterisms--savage bastard, swine, twisted this and that--and when I handed it back to him I wrote at the top, "Good column. Unfortunately there is already a Hunter S. Thompson."
rmorte62 11 months ago
Everybody singing Mr. Tambourine Man near the end gives me the chills.
charlydase 11 months ago 2
I still wonder his reasoning for wanting to be blasted into space, I personally would do it because I'd be disgusted at the idea of my body being organically recycled into another human.
parsleysprigs 1 year ago
@parsleysprigs When Diogenis was asked how he wished to be buried, he left instructions to be thrown outside the city wall so wild animals could feast on his body. When asked if he minded this, he said, "Not at all, as long as you provide me with a stick to chase the creatures away!" When asked how he could use the stick since he would lack awareness, he replied "If I lack awareness, then why should I care what happens to me when I am dead?
sfaginx 11 months ago
@parsleysprigs There was a film where he said that when he died he wanted to be blaster out of a cannon and have his ashes explode into the gonzo symbol. Johnny Depp paid for it.
hellzeeko 11 months ago
What was the sont played at the end?
highsemit 1 year ago
@highsemit
"Mr. Tambourine Man" - Bob Dylan
BlackCatCadillac 1 year ago
@highsemit You had to ask?
Billbill80s 11 months ago
I was too young to appriciate how amazing this man truly was...was only 16. I have made sure to appriciate him in death... So brilliant, and he perceived everything so utterly honest it was beautiful... I wish I could have just shaken his hand and told him what a pleasure it was to have met him
thezepp925 1 year ago
You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.
Hunter S. Thompson
bulletbill50cal 1 year ago
"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours."- HST Everything's a conspiracy and nothing is what it seems.
DarthEviscerous 1 year ago
@Baxxter101, @Reblwitoutacause I really tire of fools like youselves, you really are just the worst kind of people. Of course he contemplated suicide, I won't deny that, and hell maybe he did off himself, im not going to claim he wouldn't have done it. Shit, that's how I'm going to go out someday, when it's time. But it's obvious that you don't know Thompson as well as you think you do; even if he had killed himself, Thompson would have wanted the world to question the official story.
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He should have committed suicide by having a Satanist take out his adrenaline glands. Imagine smoking that shit! But yeh, Thompson is a fucking legend, and all you cunts mourning over him are soft bastards. Instead of being all miserable, why not act a bit more like Hunter S. Thompson. That way, he really won't ever die. That way, it won't be his rareness that keeps him alive, but his weirdness.
ArthBHx 1 year ago
Watched it from the hiil we all climbed across the street from the tavern. Had me a bottle of Wild Turkey. It was a once in a lifetime event that I will remember forever. Traveled over 2,000 miles from Pittsburgh to be there. Camped in the White Pines a few miles past Hunter's place. What a great time. HST!!! The Crazy Never Die!!!
bluevalentine9 1 year ago 3
@bluevalentine9 I hope it was wild turkey 101!!!
lv71389 1 year ago
wow this, and those people, are all quite lame.
Baxxter101 1 year ago
Steakandcheese!
shaun0069 1 year ago
That first dude in the red suit is fuckin baaaaaaked.
xSPLENDAx 1 year ago
There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die
snyper105 1 year ago
man its weird knowing that was him in the dust, just knowing its a person who lived a life and actually had a impact of some kind fucking blows me away.
lovestosplooge182 1 year ago 2
Hunter would have been pissed at all these people trying to be him. He was special because he was entirely different from anyone else, and he'd want everyone to be their own person.
sockembopers12 1 year ago
A gross physical salute to the life of Thompson
bobhapps 1 year ago
good god he killed himself for godsake! it's bad enough someone idolizes a celebrity when he's alive.
spiralcosmosart 1 year ago
@spiralcosmosart One of his most famous quotes ( I can't find it, but search around and it'll be somewhere ) is him stating that he would go crazy if he couldn't kill himself at any time. I personally think that he lived his life to the fullest, enjoyed what he could while he could, and when he couldn't any longer and he had no further reason to live, he stopped doing so. He was in control all his life and even controlled his death. A role model for all druggies ( and non ) if you ask me
Reblwitoutacause 1 year ago
@Reblwitoutacause - I disagree. He categorically admitted he was an addict many times and had an "addictive personality". Addiction is not control over one's life, it's enslavement. Before he died I was a good fan of Hunter because I never really considered him as someone suffering all that bad. I thought he was a well rounded dare devil experimenter at worst. Little did I know.
spiralcosmosart 1 year ago
@spiralcosmosart And addictive personality and being an addict are not necisarriyl the same thing. You have to remember, not only was he a writer and journalist, he was a drug. And both those areas use MUCH double meaning and metaphore. Especially when it comes to Thompson. If you attempted to listen to him or read his work in a literal sense, be prepared to miss every meaning and idea he had. I have to agree. Little did you know. He was hardly a "dare devil experimenter." He was as he would...
Reblwitoutacause 1 year ago
@spiralcosmosart ...say, "another ugly refugee of the love generation." He was as drugged up as one can get. Shit man have you ever really stopped to even think about how many drugs he was on all the time back when he wrote Fear and Loathing for Rolling Stones, in 1971? That was 20-30 some odd years before he died. He was hardly enslaved, it was a choice. He chose to do what he did with drugs, his life, and in the end, his death. I agree fully with you only when you say "Little did I know."
Reblwitoutacause 1 year ago
@Reblwitoutacause. I really did NOT believe he was ever going to commit suicide. Bold mind experimenter, but not suicidal. He seemed way too much of an heroic prankster who loved his fans. Now he's "an hero" (see encyclopedia dramatica). He had a wife at least 30 years younger than him pampering his old ass, he had everything to die with some degree of dignity without putting a bullet through his head.
spiralcosmosart 1 year ago
@spiralcosmosart Fuckin foreigners.. suicidal he was not. Football season was over. He was 67. He couldn't be a journalist anymore. He was old and tired and done with life because it held no more interest for him any longer, so when he was done, he was done. Simple as that. He didn't give a shit about his fans or being "a heroic prankster" Are you talking about Thompson or Raoul? Make sure you do not mistake one for the other because they are not the same identity or the same person.
Reblwitoutacause 1 year ago
@spiralcosmosart When you are done, you are done. It's as simple as that. "No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun — for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax — This won't hurt."
Entitled "Football Season Is Over" this is HST suicide note. If you don't understand what he's saying in this, then there is why you don't understand his death
Reblwitoutacause 1 year ago
@Reblwitoutacause you sir are a gentleman and a scholar. I too have argued with many-a-youtube-retard about his death and you have driven all of the nails into the board... Those "fans" and "admirers" who simply cannot believe or accept he took his own because it violates their personally constructed image of what HST represented deserve the pain and agony of the slow painful decay of the human form. Despite perpetual intoxication, Thompson always saw the trees, the forest, and through them.
Baxxter101 1 year ago
@Baxxter101 dude you are too cool, too cool
mariuspaica 1 year ago
@Reblwitoutacause I think his son Juan,who was in the other room at the time, said it best when is said "in a strange way it was a warm family moment"
Shit, the man practically invented and was the manifestation of "living life on your own terms". I believe Thompson understood that the standards and realities most people accept are really fucking weird man...
Point being we're all terminally ill, we will all die. When and how is NOT beyond choice, nor is it wrong to make that choice. RIP
Baxxter101 1 year ago
@Baxxter101 @Baxxter101 I thank you for seeing through what is, and being able to see what it is. He realized long ago and you can see in his work, we are all slowly marching toward the end. He just got tired of waiting and skipped ahead to the front of the line. He was done with the time and fun given to him on this planet and so when he was done, he was done. RIP indeed. And remember: "He who makes a beast of himself, gets rid of the pain of being a man."
Reblwitoutacause 1 year ago
@Reblwitoutacause I just tire of non-freaks constantly failing, not only to understand the motivations, but also for questioning, and often claiming some kind of esoteric knowledge of malicious conspiracy... I maintain that true freaks understand, accept, and consider this mode of death as more than a mere possibility, but an honorable and noble one. HST blew his own fucking brains out... Put it this way, take the ride... when its over or it is no longer fun, unbuckle yourself. don't wait.
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Truthiracy2 1 year ago
A trillion tiny pieces coming to REST on that beautiful mountainside that greets the spirit with open arms and a loving smile. R-I-P Hunter.
Sawampbilly40 1 year ago
glad to see this video of his funeral here for all the fans 2 be able to say goodbye, rip hunter you were a visionary to those who question all and that push themselves to new limits. dont forget to get weird on the otherside. selah, a whole generation went wierd without you. mike whitey. check out my book online at sic with it productions ( the american dream thru gonzo eyes). a memior doc, the last twenty years in cali thru a young whiteboys gonzo eyes.
themikewhitiest 1 year ago
Everyone has their own opinion ... but with so many who really cares?
megadeth2thenwo 1 year ago
That is one kick ass funeral rip hunter!
irishelk1 1 year ago
If he did one thing wrong it was, unwittingly, to encourage a lot of untalented pseuds to believe taking drugs and getting drunk was the short cut to ability. It isn't and in the end it wore down HST's ability too which was the real tragedy
sunbeam11 1 year ago
"Nobody was like him and that made him unique" Lulz, which also made him an individual he used to go as close to the bone as he could get, and got away with it! great philosophical philosiphizer R.I.P.I.T.U.P
Trickdogg7 1 year ago
A person of raw truth, is it any wonder why his work reverberates now as it forever will into the future.
Gaharian 1 year ago
HST is my idol .. Nobody was like him and that made him unique
DutcHcHinK 1 year ago
lOve and peace R.I.P. Hunter S. no words.........Your loved ONE Lucy ....
missLSD25 1 year ago
Hunter was the last of a dieing breed. Those that can get to the heart of a matter and examine its most unpleasent workings. He uses anger and argument along with joy and charisma like a Master!
Buy the ticket, take the ride. I hope he is enjoying his new "adventure" into the great beyond.
jehovasha 1 year ago
R.I.P. Hunter....you are my hero.
from frankfurt germany.
jahbamba 1 year ago
Jesus, look at all the hacks who turned up... Crazy.
Munjeej 1 year ago
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When you approve of it? Who the fuck are you? If you put any real interest in the life of Hunter Thompson you would realize that his death was not in vein, that he went out the way he wanted to, when he wanted to, and that he knew he'd find peace leaving this world to the next. Did he require yours or any other's approval? Of course not. If he were here, he'd dissolve you to nothing, with words, and in seconds. So please, as you respect the living, do the same for the dead.
Epykurus 1 year ago
gone but not forgotten my hero rest in peace legend,icon,role model
weezeltattoo1 1 year ago
HUNTER ISNT DEAD.
bongchampion 1 year ago 14
he'll die when i approve of it
Duckshirt 1 year ago
When you approve of it? Who the fuck are you? If you put any real interest in the life of Hunter Thompson you would realize that his death was not in vein, that he went out the way he wanted to, when he wanted to, and that he knew he'd find peace leaving this world to the next. Did he require yours or any other's approval? Of course not. If he were here, he'd dissolve you to nothing, with words, and in seconds. So please, as you respect the living, do the same for the dead.
Epykurus 1 year ago
When you approve of it? Who the fuck are you? If you put any real interest in the life of Hunter Thompson you would realize that his death was not in vein, that he went out the way he wanted to, when he wanted to, and that he knew he'd find peace leaving this world to the next. Did he require yours or any other's approval? Of course not. If he were here, he'd dissolve you to nothing, with words, and in seconds. So please, as you respect the living, do the same for the dead.
Epykurus 1 year ago
i was being vaguely poetic, so if you'll relax for two seconds you'd understand i meant that his word won't be forgotten until people like me and you forget it
Duckshirt 1 year ago
i knew what you ment
jenwasverydrunk 1 year ago
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lol, in vein.
PsychoFur 1 year ago
Thompson could always relate to Mr.tambourine man. Those Damn Swine finnaly got you hunter, but luckly we will still move on. We wont worry about today till tommorow. R.I.P
APulseOfFloyd 1 year ago
awe thats soo cool! hunter was such a character!
JungleDust 1 year ago
Those pigs finally got him! Farewell Dr. at least you won't have to deal with the catastrophe to come.
miggaddymugsy 1 year ago
R.I.P. Hunter,one of a kind,legend,gone but never forgotten.
Firefly4791 1 year ago
Holy shit was that Gibby Haynes with the guitar?
smithjedediah 1 year ago
aHa, that's not Gibby
1human 1 year ago
I was going to comment how shitty the first part of this video was, but the last minute more than made up for the small-town local news style... They shut up and just let it be.
Who knows, maybe it was some small local channel... Either way, TV news reports are lame.
Baxxter101 2 years ago
He'd definitley of hated this man. the reason hunter was so special was because he was a natural, impulsive, different person, something special.. this dude has no chance.
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antekkk 2 years ago
is bob dylan playing at the funeral or is that just on this specific video. it sounds like ppl are singing along
jkidder01 2 years ago
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antekkk 2 years ago
He Actually Did it?
I Heard Him Talk about it
once before
but I did'nt think he was
Serious
atthewarsend 2 years ago
Live your own life in your own time, people. Admire him but don't be him, be your own person.
ShockBack 2 years ago 99
fuck yeah dont try to be some one or something
PureGonzo1 2 years ago
@ShockBack well said. a true reminder.
MrMcmikemike 1 year ago
@ShockBack hunter would laugh at these douche bags.
tomkkkkk 1 year ago
@ShockBack very awesome comment...i think people get clouded with the influences of other people and stray away from their true selves
LukeLegere 11 months ago
best person who ever lived. I just cant believe how a persons life can be like his. Everything just seemed to slide into place for him. He never seemed to plan. And tbh when it did fit into place by what seemed like accident he never seemed bothered
BOOSHBOYDOM 2 years ago
I wonder what Thompson thought about his own personality cult.
Nimnoms 2 years ago 2
I don't know.. I don't think he liked it very much.
mikeyaaa 2 years ago
he really didn't like it all that much, he seemed to kind of resent it too
sammanzhi 2 years ago
be yourself
proni1 2 years ago
Blah, "Transmetropolitan" is a cheap and shallow comic book that doesn't really provide any real insight into anything real. It literally takes a bunch of social & political stereotypes and comic-ifies them. What Hunter S Thompson wrote about was REAL, even when it wasn't, about anti-Castro terrorists living off of cocaine and gun sales when they weren't "running around naked in the basement of the White House with Oliver North," to paraphrase HST. Warren Ellis doesn't tell us anything ...
sfbalasc 2 years ago 3
its all entertainment,and there is much of a little jab, it aint going to criticize much the american culture but that of a future society,tyhat of a dystopia
super88cloud 2 years ago
For all you Hunter S. Thompson fans out there, you should probably check out Warren Ellis' "Transmetropolitan". And yeah, it's a graphic novel [comic book if you wanna be a dick about it :)] but trust me - "Fear and Loathing" is the only thing that compares when it comes to portraying Thompson and gonzo journalism...
henok8191 2 years ago 2
@henok8191 hahaha cant believe that. my friend showed me that book the other day and said the same thing
BOOSHBOYDOM 2 years ago
Wherever you may be man, I'll catch up.
BoxDub 2 years ago
pretty amazing.
zippywaite 2 years ago
I'm thankful for your wife.
giantman72 2 years ago 2
why is it every time i fucking write a goddamn comment it just says "post comment" after i hit enter even though my comment was not too long or what ever does it for youtube to fucking let it pass fuck ...youtube is free but really gets on my freeloading fucking nerves sometimes...they should rename it "themtube"
me5g435rg 2 years ago 3
metube?
slipknot555133 2 years ago
right on ;)
1hejhej1 2 years ago
haha them tube. fukn nazi kunts
TheEdukators 2 years ago
You're just unlucky. Don't take it personal. Or do? Maybe.
thedougmeister 2 years ago
na unpersonal
me5g435rg 2 years ago
All we can do now, is buy the ticket and take the ride folks.
omgwthzomglawl 2 years ago 16
@omgwthzomglawl Best comment on youtube ever.
Chrisbrown762 10 months ago
RIP HUNTER
MountAnalogue 2 years ago
don't take guff from swine. keep your wits about you.
mrlupatel 2 years ago 5
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Nutjobs!
tulagKY 2 years ago
"...And thanks to Bob Dylan,for Mister Tambourine Man"
CBamProductions 2 years ago 9
The 60's officially died that day.
MoseyBurns 2 years ago 5
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he'd probably hate this
ghostmonkeyrape 2 years ago
You kidding? This was H.S.T's idea. Johnny Depp made sure that it happened.
Giannamede 2 years ago 30
i think what ghostmonkey ment is that hunter would hate the fact that we are exploiting him as mainstreet america and people that didn't ever even care before are suddenly interested when they don't know any of the facts or backstory he desrves the best the real and no the 60's offically died in 1971 hunters own words you see what imean
luvrip4life 2 years ago 4
i could go for some steak and cheese right now
ghostmonkeyrape 2 years ago
It's simple, He was an interesting guy that had some interesting things to say!!!
seccaman3 2 years ago 3
He wasn't who everyone said he was, hunter was playing a character. And we all bought into it.
He would be amused with all the silly nonsense.
whiteguysamurai 2 years ago
If what you mean is that he was somehow a victim of his own fame, then maybe... like the Doonesbury caricature of Raoul Duke and all, but if you know anything about the man's life, he was always who he was... a true original. Often emulated and never duplicated. They broke the mold when they made him, and whatever "image" people cling to of the man was born out of real individuality and true grit.
Brewzerr 2 years ago 3
I felt chills when Mr. Tambourine Man played. And i almost cryed a bit. He was a great person
HexicNexus 2 years ago 5
Hunter wrote somewhere (in his voluminous correspondence, I think) that he didn't expect to live past the age of twenty-seven, so therefore his last forty years were on 'borrowed' time till he wore out from the ravages of age and the stupidity of George W. Bush's Amerika. Hunter would've been pleased that Colorado (and most of the nation) voted for Obama. Now I'm looking forward to the film version of Hunter's "Rum Diary" with Johnny Depp. Res Ipsa Loquitur et Requiesat In Pace, Lizard Man!
scorpiowatertiger 2 years ago
Hunter may have been pleased at Obama's election victory, but he'd never express it. Furthermore, he'd have become a major thorn in Obama's side and, I reckon, more than ever commentate with such fierce criticism so as to keep the Dijon do-gooder in check and hold him to every last word spoke and every last promise made. Hunter was a man of the people, and the people in general are still suffering in Dr. Gonzo's ideology of Amerika.
Haligonia 2 years ago
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scorpiowatertiger 2 years ago
Haligonia, are you unfamiliar with the way Hunter favoured Carter in '76, or (to a lesser extent) Clinton in '92? Granted, he'd take Obama to task for Playing The Game to cultivate 'centrists' who are perceived as necessary to win and hold the Presidency, but faced with the possibility of McCain/Palin winning by default, I think Hunter would've sounded off on Obama's behalf.
("Dijon do-gooder"? Did Obama endorse 'Grey Poupon'? Should he recommend it, like Lincoln did for Grant's whisky?)
scorpiowatertiger 2 years ago
again, well said!
Hendrixleftfiner 2 years ago
what a song to go out to...
gotta love his style
Freshtalk505 2 years ago 2
what a funeral.. he loved to party.
BJZnRPZ 2 years ago
I lived in Colorado when he died. I'm now fearing and loathing in Las Vegas.
fatcatbuzz 2 years ago
Hippyfest 07'
Johnnykerr99 3 years ago
people who try to emulate him arent really honoring him, try to be different you know, thats why he was such a good writer he wasn't conforming to every one else's style, he created his own.
JDogg22267 3 years ago 14
Exactly. People should follow his ideas, not his image. Be your own man, or woman. That doesn't mean AVOIDING conformity at every turn - you can, in fact, try too hard. But crafting your own image in the mold of Hunter is no different from crafting your image in the mold of a generic Hollister model. You're pretending to be someone else. It's akin to seeing a heavily tattooed biker, wanting to get your own tattoos...and copying from his skin. It's not an honor to him at all. It's theft.
thornwithin81 3 years ago 7
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godisawheelbarrow 2 years ago
Well said.
godisawheelbarrow 2 years ago
its a payote leaf he was into mescaline
usher425 3 years ago
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Who is Hunter just a famous druggie?
LivingIn1969 3 years ago
I think its best you find out that answer yourself. Start in the library
Aum420 3 years ago
you suck hes the best author ever
shawboy12 3 years ago
wtf? i suck for asking a fucking QUESTION? go fuck yourself youtube
LivingIn1969 3 years ago
hahha u are an ignorant fuck.
you are the kind of person that has fucked our world up you close minded son of a bitch.
bob1234tt 2 years ago
it was a genuine question ppl, at the time i asked i thot he was a famous drug user, well i know who he is now so back off.
LivingIn1969 2 years ago
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why did they make a big creapy green glowing thing on a column?
oleedee 3 years ago
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looks like a pot leaf..
TheyCallHimDale 3 years ago
its a peyote bud
G0bbleMyG00 3 years ago 8
that makes more sense thank you for clearin that up *peace*
TheyCallHimDale 3 years ago
There he goes... one of God's own prototypes... Too wierd to live... too rare to die...
SnIkLeeT 3 years ago 9
epic quote
timothyjohansson 3 years ago 3
I never met Hunter, but the fact that I didn't makes me feel so cheated. It makes me so miserable that I missed out on meeting one of the most influential American writers ever.
SharksKid 3 years ago
i bet he's just glad he died before you had the chance...
billyfever 3 years ago 2
that's pretty cool11!!!
mikederda 3 years ago
R.I.P I gotta feeling you and Bill Hicks will get along just fine...
MelbaToast454 3 years ago 5
How annoying would it be to be at the woody creek tavern surrounded by those fools.
taurusred 3 years ago 9
dude...
SnIkLeeT 3 years ago
haha totally!
Borat199123456 1 year ago
Can't wait for Campaign Trail '72 to come out
Innamorati 3 years ago
I